Aslam

Praise be to Allah.

Firstly, we praise Allah for having guided you to the

truth, and we ask Him to make you steadfast and help you to attain all

that is good. Remember that you have been greatly blessed, and if you

devote your entire life and wealth for that purpose, that will be little

in return for that blessing. Do you know how many millions of people of

your father’s background worship rocks and human beings? Do you know that

all these people believe that the Qur'aan is distorted and they regard the

Sahaabah as kaafirs, apart from a few of them? Do you know that these

people have revived the shirk of Jaahiliyyah and added more forms of shirk

than were known in the past?

We do not call people to anything except worship of Allah,

may He be exalted, and we also call people to venerate and respect the

Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and not to impugn his

honour or slander his Companions. As we love all of the Sahaabah and pray

that Allah be pleased with them, and we seek to draw closer to Allah by

loving them, we also love and respect the people of the Prophet's household

(Ahl al-Bayt), and we seek to draw closer to Allah by loving them.

Secondly:

With regard to your dealings with your father, what we advise

you is:

1.Be kind in your dealings with

him as much as possible.

2.Strive to serve him as much as

you are able, and do not spare any effort in doing so. Do not withhold any

help or kind treatment from him.

3.Focus on your studies and do

not let your neglect of them be a cause of you losing your religious

commitment. What we understand from your message is that your father wants

to take steps to prevent you from accessing our site and other beneficial

Islamic sites because of your studies. So do not give him that excuse; study

and progress in your studies; close the door to your father’s shaytaan so

that he will not be able to make the issue of your studies a means of

preventing you from following true guidance.

4.Do not make an open show of

visiting useful Islamic websites in front of him, and do not make an open

show of your following the path of Ahl al-Sunnah in front of him. Even more

important is not arguing and debating with regard to good matters, because

doing that openly may motivate him to prevent you from following the path of

true guidance.

5.Pray for him and for all of

your family to be guided to the right path. Strive to make this du’aa’ when

you are prostrating and during the last third of the night.

6.Finally, we advise you to use

wisdom in dealing with your father. If he teaches you to pray in the Shi’i

manner and you cannot reject it, then accept it from him and pretend to

agree with him, but pray in the manner established in the sound Sunnah. With

regard to the way the prayer is done, the matter is broad in scope in sha

Allah, and you come under the heading of one who is forced to do something.

You are at an age when you are not old enough to separate from him, so be

patient until the time comes when you can leave, then if Allah guides your

father before that, you can stay with them, or you can leave and live

independently, so as to protect your religious commitment.

And Allah knows best.